FROM THE RPM-M
To OUR Comrades in the NEW Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA),
Revolutionary and Warmest Greetings from the Revolutionary Workers Party-Mindanao (Philippines)!
The founding and building of a NEW ANTI-CAPITALIST Party in the context of the intensifying global economic meltdown is not only timely but most appropriate.
As the neo-liberal capitalism has been gasping for its last breath the working class and progressive forces have been steadily gaining their strength and building social infrastructure and new mechanism in pursuing socialism as to finally deliver the death blow for capitalism and its palliatives remedies to the worst global economic crisis, since the 1930’s.
The founding of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) has been integral part of the hard works, sacrifices as well as lessons gained and small victories of Comrades and leadership of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR-France) with the other progressive groups and individuals to appropriately face and provide Leadership to the intensifying struggle of the working class towards Socialism.
This is a historic event not only for the Fourth International but most especially for the International proletarian and Anti-Capitalist movement in achieving socialism.
The Revolutionary Workers’ Party – Mindanao salutes all the Comrades behind the founding of the New Anti-Capitalist Party in France!
We wish you all the success!
Long live the NPA!
Working Class of the World Unite!
REBOLUSYONARYONG PARTIDO NG MANGGAGAWA-MINDANAO (RPM-M)
(REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS’ PARTY OF MINDANAO)
FROM THE KPD
To Comrades in the New Anti-Capitalist Party in France
On the Occasion of the Congress of the New Anti-Capitalist Party , France
The collapse of the capitalist financial system is now shaking the whole world. It is truly the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. This deep-rooted financial crisis has now brought great suffering for working people the world over.
Amidst this crisis, imperialist governments are waging wars of aggression against peoples asserting independence from imperialist domination and control. These governments continue to spend billions of dollars in the wars in Iraq , in Afghanistan , in Palestine and even in Mindanao in the Philippines instead of bailing out the people from poverty. US imperialism continues to expand its military forces and their spheres of operation.
Working class and peoples’ movements are now being challenged as never before to defend living conditions and democratic rights that have come under harsher attack. And central to this defense is a vigorous struggle to put an end to the economic and political system that destroys humanity and the world itself.
We, the officers and members of the Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya in the Philippines , welcome with joy the formation of the New Anti-Capitalist Party in France! We view this as a way through which people who want to put an end to capitalist ills could find each other, collaborate and give life to ther commitment for a better society, for a better world.
We hope to see this party grow stronger and independently taking the path of struggle by the working class and the oppressed people in France . We hope to see this formation consistently defying the capitalist claim that there is no alternative to this system.
We look forward to working with you in the international movement against imperialism!
In Solidarity,
PETE PINLAC
Chairperson
Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasya (KPD)
FROM THE PM
SOLIDARITY MESSAGE FROM THE PARTIDO NG MANGGAGAWA
The Partido ng Manggagawa (Labor Party-Philippines) salutes the founding congress of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA). The establishment in France of an independent working class party with a fighting chance to contest the bourgeois rule heralds a new stage in the class struggle and the revitalization of the working class movement. It comes at an opportune time with the international capitalism bogged down in a historic crisis and with working class struggles erupting around the world, including France.
Wage-workers in industrial and developing countries, skilled and unskilled laborers, manual and mental workers, urban and rural proletarians – all are ravaged by the scourge of neoliberal globalization with lost jobs and low pay, wage freeze and wage cuts, downsized and diminished benefits, factory closures and run-away shops, contractualization and casualization of labor, strike-breaking and union-busting.
In every decade since the 1950’s, the working people produced more wealth than the total output of mankind since the dawn of civilization some 12,000 years ago. But the gap between the rich and the poor is wider and deeper than ever in history. Even in America, the richest of all nations, only one percent of its wealth is shared by 80 percent of its population.
Despite all the advances in social production, billions today still have no food on their tables, clothes on their backs and roofs over their heads. If this is the meaning of capitalist progress and civilization, how does it differ from a cannibal who has learned to use knife and fork? The last 100 years of capitalism has been a century of over-abundance for the owners of capital and utter deprivation for those who live only by the sale of their labor.
Using the yardstick of history, four centuries of capitalism is short compared to earlier social systems. But as soon as it emerged, its every progress has sparked epic class struggles. The last hundred years of capitalism eminently has been a history of wars and revolutions, of liberation struggles of oppressed nations against imperialist countries, and of class battles between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.
Anti-capitalist revolutions broke out even as the rule of capital has yet to conquer the entire globe. At its peak, socialist states covered a quarter of the world’s area and a third of the human population.
The collapse of socialism in the last decades of the 20th century has emboldened the bourgeois elements of society to vilify it as a utopian dream. But what they pass off as the vindication of capitalism is merely their class bias showing. That communism inspired hundreds of millions to life and death struggle and Marxist revolutions were victorious in scores of countries is incontrovertible proof of their firm roots in material conditions and social realities.
The period of the two world wars ushered in the first wave of socialist revolutions. With hindsight and foresight, it was only a dress rehearsal for the real revolution that can now begin with the advent of the third world war – the global offensive of capital versus labor. The revolutionary proletariat will arise, like the phoenix from the ashes, stronger and wiser.
Neoliberal globalization has inaugurated not a post-industrial society but the unadorned class rule of the international bourgeoisie and the insatiable pursuit of profit by monopoly capital. Class antagonisms have not been attenuated but on the contrary are heightened.
Proletarianization of the population proceeds as never before. Unarguably, the working class is the absolute majority in the world. The so-called services are being industrialized, that is put under the regime of mechanized production and social labor. The modern office is little different from the automated factory. In both, low pay, long hours and insecure jobs are the norm. Professions are transformed from independent livelihood into wage-labor. Mental workers are joining manual laborers in organizing unions to protect their interests as wage-slaves.
Globalization has unleashed not so much the creative power of capital as its destructive forces. The genie of finance capital has been liberated by the liberalization of trade and investment and has left a path of destruction in its wake. Intensified global competition is the anarchy of production multiplied and the crisis of overproduction internationalized.
Capitalism in the age of Globalization is hopelessly bound up in its innate contradictions brought to their peak. And the proletariat is inevitably impelled to revolt by the vicious attacks against their living standards and social rights.
Globalization by its very nature transforms the economic turmoil in one nation into a world crisis. It obliges the workers struggle in one country to become an international fight.
The world is witnessing the rebellion of the advanced forces of production against outmoded capitalist relations, the contradiction between the socialized forms of production and bourgeois private property exploding into crisis and revolution.
It is Marxism rather than capitalism that is passe. Marx was a visionary who saw far ahead of his time. What he described applies more to the Globalization of our era than the capitalism of his age. And what he foretold will only now truly come to be.
The lords of capital will be no different from the slaveholders and landlords of yore who thought they would rule forever until the rising of the former working classes brought their delusions crashing upon their heads.
The general strike in France, the mass uprising in Greece, and the class struggles in Latin America are the sign of the times. They are a portent of the brewing storm of working class revolution under the leadership of the new workers parties that will sweep imperialist Globalization to its grave.